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a16z Crypto: The CLARITY Act Is Crypto's 1933 Moment
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act on May 14 in a bipartisan vote, building on the House's earlier passage (294-134) and years of legislative groundwork stretching back to Lummis-Gillibrand in 2022. a16z General Counsel Miles Jennings frames CLARITY as a generational regulatory reset, comparable to the Securities Act of 1933, that would end a decade of regulation-by-enforcement, draw a clear SEC/CFTC jurisdictional line, and give blockchain networks a legal pathway to operate domestically without structural compromise. Existing law was built for companies, not networks: forcing blockchain projects into corporate form concentrates control, creates intermediaries, and defeats the decentralization that makes crypto valuable in the first place. If CLARITY clears a full Senate vote and the House, builders gain the same kind of clarity the GENIUS Act gave stablecoin issuers which a16z credits with unlocking an overnight wave of mainstream adoption.
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